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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

673: Maximizing Wellbeing at Work with Gallup’s Dr. Jim Harter

Jun 3, 2021
35:53

Dr. Jim Harter shares the key practices that improve wellbeing at work.


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) The five key ingredients to a thriving work life 

2) Top tips for developing each area of wellbeing  

3) What most organizations get wrong about wellbeing 


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— ABOUT JIM — 

Jim Harter, Ph.D., is Chief Scientist for Gallup’s workplace management and wellbeing practices. He is coauthor of the No. 1 Wall Street Journal and Washington Post bestseller, It’s the Manager. He is also the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller 12: The Elements of Great Managing.

Dr. Harter’s book, the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements, is based on a global study of what differentiates people who are thriving from those who are not. His research is featured in First, Break All the Rules, and he contributed the foreword to Gallup’s updated edition of this groundbreaking bestseller.

Dr. Harter is the primary researcher and author of the first large-scale, multi-organization study to investigate the relationships between work-unit employee engagement and business results. His work has appeared in many publications, including Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company and Time Magazine, and in academic articles and book chapters.

Dr. Harter received his doctorate in psychological and cultural studies in quantitative and qualitative methods from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL).

• Jim’s book: Wellbeing at Work, with Jim Clifton 

• Jim’s LinkedIn: Jim Harter 


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Book: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman 

• Tool: CliftonStrengths 


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